Recepción de la "fantasía científica" Darwiniana en la Argentina decimonónica (La teoría evolucionista en discursos literarios y parlamentarios)
- Autores: Marisa Miranda
- Localización: Theomai: estudios sobre sociedad, naturaleza y desarrollo, ISSN-e 1515-6443, Nº. 5, 2002
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The goal of this work is to demonstrate, through two studies of cases, the reception -reductionist and with influence of Spencer's version- of the Darwinism, in cultivated circuits of the Argentina of XIX century. In the book of fiction of the doctor and naturalistic, Eduardo Holmberg, Dos partidos en lucha (1875), their introduction is interpreted exclusively as a politic dispute that pervert the same Theory of the Evolution -applicable only to the biological organism, according Darwin -; likewise, with the tension created in the society, traditionalist and catholic, due to the progressive loss of power and representativeness, arise a virulent reaction, of anti-evolutionists characteristics, remarkable through the parliamentary debates of the Law 1420 (1884), in those which the defenders of the status quo and, in observance of Quanta Cura Encyclic and Syllabus's prescriptions, its complementary, they claim to proscribe "the horrible tempest loosened by so many perverse doctrines." (Article in Spanish)
